🐬Common bottlenose dolphin
The common bottlenose dolphin or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin is one of three species of bottlenose dolphin in the genus Tursiops. While formerly known simply as the bottlenose dolphin, this term is now applied to the genus Tursiops as a whole. As considerable genetic variation has been described within this species, even between neighboring populations, many experts think additional species may be recognized and split out.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 230 kg
- Body length
- 3.63 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 53 years
Everything we know about the Common bottlenose dolphin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass230 kgrecord 650 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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- 200 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length3.63 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 3.8 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass1,551 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan53 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 52 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length18 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity9.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation1.0 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.0 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range53 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.2 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l230 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Common bottlenose dolphin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyDelphinidae
- ›genusTursiops
- ›speciesTursiops truncatus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- genusTursiops
All 15 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderWhippomorpha
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- familyDelphinidae
- genusTursiops
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